Camden, NY 13493 Frost Dates
13493, near Camden, NY: the frost window
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Camden sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Camden's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Camden's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Camden places 33,660 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,310 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13493: local microclimates, on what one yard in Camden can differ from the 13493 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Camden's frost date answer different questions.